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LEESBURG — Four and a half years after Marine Staff Sgt. Michael Bock was killed in Afghanistan, about 100 people crowded a lakeside pavilion at Venetian Gardens on Friday to ensure that his memory will live on. Friends, family and veterans watched as state Rep. Larry Metz, R-Yalaha, unveiled a sign that designates a portion of a nearby road as "Staff Sergeant Michael A. Bock Memorial Highway." A number of the red-and-yellow signs will dot a half-mile stretch of State Road 44 from Main Street to 14th Street in Leesburg, where Bock attended high school. The memorial highway is possible thanks to a bill passed by the Legislature last year, said Metz, who presided over the...

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